Recipient of numerous accolades, including an Australian writers guild award, Mike has worked in script development with companies including the ABC, WarnerBros, EveryCloud, Porchlight, Jungle, & Princess Pictures; has lead long-form script labs for YouTube, and is story consultant to ABC Signature studios in the US.

Mike oversees story development with boutique TV production company, SweetPotatoFilms, whose recent success in includes the multi award-winning mystery drama series, ‘The Kettering Incident’. He is story producer for ABC youth-drama series 'Deadlock' for EveryCloud productions, and has served as script producer for ABCTV on comic-drama series including 'F*cking Adelaide', 'Other People's Problems', 'Wrong Kind of Black', and 'Edge of the Bush'.

Mike was co-creator of the virtual-reality detective-thriller ‘VRNoir: A Day Before the Night’ with StartVR and short-listed for the International ProtoAward for most Innovative VR 2016. He is also co-writer of forthcoming speculative-fiction VR thriller, ‘Awake'. Mike previously lead story development for multi-platform company, Portal, developed cross-platform projects for WarnerBros, and served as a development consultant to ScreenAustralia. As a novelist Mike is author of “The Transgressions Cycle”, a three-book series of supernatural gothic novels published by Simon&Schuster, named on Apple iBooks'Best Of' list and twice nominated for the Australian Shadows award for best Horror novel of the year.

Mike’s early career spanned writing for theatre, working as a screen industry journalist, and he previously lectured in story & writing at the Australian Film TV & Radio School.

31/10/17 First teaser released for Horror VR project Black Chamber which adapts the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. http://thepulseoriginals.com/black-chamber/ A project I executive produced with Deadrock, The Pulse, and Goliath pictures.____

12/09/2017 Very stoked to see VRNoir is named No3 on MUO's #VR best of list... "delivers a cinematic experience and almost transcends pure gaming. The voice acting is top-notch, and the narrative is engrossing."

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01/09/2017 Production on DEADLOCK has now officially wrapped. Huge thanks to the mazing crew we had who all went above and beyond. Post production is about to begin.

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20/07/17 ABC series, Other People's Problems, will premiere at the prestigious Series Mania Festival in Melbourne. Part of a new slate of shows I script produced for the ABC, OPP is described as a "two-handed comedy that Reflects on the minutiae of human interactions for those who sweat the small stuff". Coming soon to ABC iView.